The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-08-04


in Euclid than i'll John Milton. They
were as passionately fond Of mathematics
as Plato, who wrote over his door: let
no one enter here who is not acquainted
| with geometry" What are they doing
| now? They are busy with figures yet.
No place in all the universe like heaven
| Cor figures. Numbers infinite, distances
! infinite, calculations infinite. The didac-
tic Or. Dick said he really thought that
| the redeemed in heaven spent some Of
| their time with the higher branches of
mathematics.
Some of our transferred and trans
ported metaphysicians-what are they
doing now? Studying tie human mind,
only under better circumstances than
they used to study it. They used to study
| the mind sheathed in the dull human
body. Now the spirit unsheathed-now
they are studying the sword outside the
scabbard. Have you any doubt about
what Sir William Hamilton is doing in
! heaven, or what Jonathan Edwards is
doing in heaven, or the multitude on
earth who had passion for metaphysics
sanctiied by the grace of God: No diff
Guilty in guessing. Metaphysics, glorious
metaphysics everlasting metaphysics.
What are our departed Christian
friends who are explorers doing
now? Exploring yet, but with
lightning locomotion, with vision mi
croscopic and telescope at the same
time. A continent at glance, A world
in second. a planetary system in q
day. Christian John Franklin no more
in disabled "Erebus'' pushing toward
IL T
more trying TO free blockaded Jeannette
from the ice, Christian Livingstone no
more amid African malarias trying to
make revelation of a dark continent; but
all of them in the twinkling Of AN eye
taking in that which was unapprOacha-
bic. Mont Blanc scaled without an alpen-
stock. The coral depths of the ocean cx-
plored without diving bell The noun
tains unbarred and opened without Sir
Humphrey Davy's safety lamp
What are our departed friends, who
found their chief joy in studying, doing
now? Studying yet, but instead Of a
few thousand volumes on few shelves,
all the volumes Of the universe open be-
fore them-geologic, ornithologic, con-
Chologic, botanic, astronomic, phil0-
sophie. No more need of Leyden jars,
or voltaic piles, or electric batteries,
standing as they do face to face with the
facts Of the universe.
What are the historians doing now?
Studying history yet, but not the history
Of d few centuries of our planet only, but
the history Of the eteFnities-whole mil
lenniums before Xenophon, or HerodO-
dotus, OF Moses, or Adam was born.
History of one world, history of all
worlds.
What are our departed astronomers
doing? Studying astronomy yet, but not
through the dull lens of earthly observa-
tory, but with one stroke of wing going
right out to Jupiter and Mars, and Mer-
curry and Saturn, and Orion and the
Pleiades-overtaking and passing swift
est comet in their flight. Herschel died
Christian. Have you any doubt about
what Herschel is doing? Isaac Newton
died q Christian. Have you any doubt
ebout what Isaac Newton is doing? Jo-
seph Henry died Christian. Have you
any doubt about what Joseph Henry is
doing? They were in discussion, all these
astronomers of earth, about what the au-
rora borealis was, and none of them
could guess. They know now; they have
been out there to see for themselves.
What are our departed Christian chem
lists doing? Following out their own
science, following out and following out
forever. Since they died they have solved
ten thousand questions which once puz-
lied the earthly laboratory. They stand
on the other side of the thin wall of cleo
tricitv, the wall that seems to divide the
physical from the spiritual world, the
thin wall Of electricity, so thin the wall
that even and anon it seems to be almost
broken through-broken through from
our side by telephonia and telegraphic
apparatus; broken through from the other
side by strange influences which men In
their ignorance oan spirituaiistic mani
festations. All MAX nlattay cleared up.
Agassiz standing amid his studens eS-
plorers down in Brazil coming across
some great novelty in the rocks, taxing
off his hat and saying +Geutlemen. let
us pray; we must have divine iliuInina-
ton; we want wisdom from the Creator
to study these rocks; He made them; let
us pray ''-Agassiz going right on with
with his studies forever and forever.
But what are the men of the law, who
in this world found their chief Joy in the
legal PROFESSIONALISM are they doing
now? Studying law in a universe where
everything is controlled by law from
flight of humming bird TO flight of world
law not dry and hard and drudging.
but righteous and magnificent law, be
fore which man and cherub and serapf
and archangel and God himself bow,
The chain Of law long enough to wind
around the inlmensities and infinity and
eternity. Chain Of law, What a place
to stud Y law, where al the links Of the
chain ere in the hand,
What are our departed Christian friends
who in this world had their Joy in the
healing art doing now? Busy at theil
old business. No sickness in heaven, but
plenty of sickness on earth, plenty Of
wounds in the different parts of Gods
dominion to be healed and to be medi
Gated. You cannot understand why that
patient got well after all the sk1llful doc,
tors of New York and Brooklyn had said
he must die. Perhaps Abercrombit
touched him-Abercrombie who, after
many years doctaripg the bodies ant
the souls of people in Scotland, went NJ
to God in 1874. Perhaps Abercrombit
touched him.
should not wonder if my old friend
DIR. John Brown, who died in Edinburgh
John Brown, the author Of "Rab and
His Friends john Brown, who was as
humble a Christian as he was skillful &
physician and world renowned author
should not wonder if he had been bach
again and again to see some of his ole
!, patients. Those who had their joy il
: healing the sickness and the woes of earth
gone up to heaven, are come forth egair
for benignant medicament.
But what are our friends who founC
their chief joy in conversation and il
sociality doing nowf In brighter conver
sation there and in grander sociality,
What a place to visit in, where you
next door neighbors are kings and queens
You yourselves kingly and queenly. l
, they want to know more PARTICULAR,